Highway Horror is part of a series of Monster Hunter's Contracts, which are intended to be simple drop in contracts that consist of a contract poster, contact character, investigation phase, battle phase, and aftermath phase. In addition to this, each contract introduces a monster, monster variant, or a custom strategy for several monsters to use, and at least one piece of something that can be extracted from the monster and used in crafting. Lastly, it comes with an in-universe description of the monster, that could possibly be discovered elsewhere during a campaign, or otherwise searched for.
The Contracts are written for a relatively grounded non-specific dark fantasy setting, which occasionally has the chance for events of epic proportions, or deciding the potential fate of nations.
Highway Horror deals with the fate of a small but prosperous walled trade town, encircled in a politically volatile environment, with its fate tied to the Highway Horror. Some ulterior motives feature, in an otherwise straight forward contract.
- from the publisher's blurb